CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-44544

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2022-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-250

Description

Mahara 21.04 before 21.04.7, 21.10 before 21.10.5, 22.04 before 22.04.3, and 22.10 before 22.10.0 potentially allow a PDF export to trigger a remote shell if the site is running on Ubuntu and the flag -dSAFER is not set with Ghostscript.

Affected configurations

• mahara mahara (>= 21.04.0 < 21.04.7) • mahara mahara (>= 21.10.0 < 21.10.5) • mahara mahara (>= 22.04.0 < 22.04.3) • mahara mahara 22.10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness

References